[349]It is very doubtful whether Spenser was so poor as he is generally believed to have been.—Tr.
[350]"He died for want of bread, in King Street." Ben Jonson, quoted by Drummond.
[351]"Hymns of Love and Beauty"; Of Heavenly Love and Beauty.
[352]"A Hymne in Honour of Beautie," lines 92-105.
[353]"A Hymne in Honour of Love," lines 176-182.
[354]"The Faërie Queene," I. c. 8, stanzas 22, 23.
[355]"The Shepherd's Calendar, Amoretti, Sonnets, Prothalamion, Epithalamion, Muiopotmos, Vergil's Gnat, The Ruines of Time, The Teares of the Muses," etc.
[356]Published in 1580: dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney.
[357]"Prothalamion," lines 19-54.
[358]"Astrophel and Stella," lines 181-192.